Gospel Corner
25/06/25
Joel Osteen Ministries
Today’s Word
Today’s Scripture
When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
John 5:6, NIV
Get in Agreement
In John 5, Jesus asked a man who had been disabled for thirty-eight years if he wanted to get well. The answer seemed obvious, but rather than say yes, the man began explaining why it seemed impossible. In one sense, Jesus was saying, “I need your permission to help you. If you’re not in agreement with Me, if you’re giving Me reasons for why it can’t happen, I can’t turn this around.”
You have to give God permission to bless you, permission to free you, permission to promote you. You have to get in agreement with Him. As long as you’re thinking of all the reasons why it’s not going to happen, talking about how impossible it looks, that’s going to keep you where you are.
The conditions may not look favorable for it to ever change, but this is what faith is all about. You’re looking at it in the natural, but we serve a supernatural God. Release your faith, expecting His goodness, and He’ll make things happen that you can’t make happen, things that you can’t explain, things that you don’t see coming.
A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that with Your calling upon my life comes the power to release any old thinking, old habits, discouragement, and dysfunction that would keep me stuck. I’m dropping the excuses that hold me back and taking steps of faith for a new beginning today.

I want to give you a simple but critical truth. Memorize this truth. Feed on it. Let it take root in your spirit and become an anchor in your life. You will never be the same again.
Are you ready? Here it goes:
As a child of God, no matter what happens in your life, your Father in heaven loves you dearly and nothing you do can ever change that.
Will you believe that today? Whether you are going through good times or facing challenging times, you need to know that your Abba loves you.
There is nothing that you can ever do to make Him love you more, and nothing that you can ever do to make Him love you less. Even—or perhaps especially—when you feel like you have failed, know that you will always be the apple of His eye. Always.
God loves you with an everlasting love (Jer. 31:3). A love that is the same yesterday, today, forever.
Feel your Daddy God enfolding you in His embrace right now. You are safe. You are utterly loved and completely accepted.
He loved you before you ever knew Him. His love for you has nothing to do with anything that you have done for Him. Nothing you do will ever affect His unwavering, unconditional love for you.
There is nothing for you to prove. You only need to rest and receive your Abba’s love. Let your life become established and grounded in a love that is so perfect that no challenge or adversity will be able to knock you down.
If you think that you’ve messed up, turn to your Father. In His loving arms you will find hope, security, and refuge from any storm.
I love how the apostle Paul puts it: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? . . . Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 8:35, 37–39).
Beloved, there are no caveats or disclaimers when it comes to the love of your heavenly Father. The Bible plainly states that nothing shall be able to separate you from the love of your Father in heaven. It’s an absolute declaration and promise.
“Nothing” means nothing. As a believer, this means that even your mistakes, failings, and sins cannot separate you from the love of your Father. Hallelujah!